HBOs hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martins internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A GAME OF THRONES is the first volume in the series.So vivid that youll be hooked within a few pages The TimesSummers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun.As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on him the office of the Hand. His honour weighs him down at court where a true man does what he will, not what he must  and a dead enemy is a thing of beauty.The old gods have no power in the south, Starks family is split and there is treachery at court. Worse, the vengeance-mad heir of the deposed Dragon King has grown to ma